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East Pitcairn, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Pitcairn town. It lies in ZIP code area 13648. It stands on Greenwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fine quadrangle.

East Pitcairn within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1916 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of East Pitcairn, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of East Pitcairn, surveyed 1916

Compare 1916 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of East Pitcairn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distribution7.0 acresNew York Forest RangersEDWARDS FIRE
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 August 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
26 August 2019Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersPITCAIRN FIRE
4 July 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
12 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 July 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of East Pitcairn: 6 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Zirconium, Iron, Titanium, Metal, Talc-Soapstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Diana ComplexIron, Titanium, MetalOccurrence
East Pitcairn Fluorite DepositFluorine-Fluorite, ZirconiumOccurrence
East Pitcairn Gypsum DepositGypsum-Anhydrite, ZirconiumOccurrence
Fine DepositFeldspar, QuartzProspect
Gouverneur #1 Talc Mine & MillTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
Green Farm DepositIronPast Producer1885, 1888
Green Farm DepositIronPast Producer
Jayville DepositIronPast Producer1854
Jayville MinesIronPast Producer1854
Shirtliff MineIronPast Producer1838, 1888

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Pitcairn in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2023Flash FloodEast Pitcairn$75,000Persistent showers and thunderstorms affected the southern portions of St. Lawrence County, NY during the late afternoon and evening hours on August 4, 2023. Radar estimates of between two and five inches of rain fell in this area, particularly in the Town of Pitcairn where emergency management reported multiple road washouts, including along Edwards Rd.

Every storm recorded in St. Lawrence County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pond Settlement2.9 miles15
South Edwards3.5 miles15
Kalurah4.1 miles18
Pitcairn4.1 miles17
Backus4.6 miles17
Jayville4.6 miles18
Fine4.9 miles18
Briggs5.8 miles18

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122566526The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 976276. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.